The role of marine sector optimization strategy in the stabilisation of Indonesian economy

Indonesian Economic crisis is not economic disaster, but as a market correction for Indonesian economic development strategy. This paper present that development of marine sector is one of development strategy as resources based development in Indonesia. Marine sector development will carry Indonesian out of crisis toward better economic development. Development of the marine sector which is basically the utilization of ecosystem diversity contained in each region, means that the development of marine is identical with economic development in each region. Production technology in the marine sector with wide variation (labor-intensive technology to knowledge-intensive technology) will be able to accommodate human resources with variations of education background. Marine based economic development strategy capable of reaching broad problem solving, capable of being implemented by Indonesia and able to lead the Indonesian nation to a better future economy.